A day after some prominent Muslim intellectuals advocated that the community should surrender its claim on the disputed Ram Janmabhoomi-Babri Masjid land and allow Hindus to construct Ram temple on it in Ayodhya, All-India Muslim Personal Law Board categorically turned down the suggestion, saying they had no locus standi in the case.

AIMPLB spokesperson Zafaryab Jilani said the

Muslim Personal Law Board was unfazed by any such suggestion. “Those giving suggestions to surrender claim have no locus standi in the case,” he said.

The AIMPLB national executive meet in Lucknow on Saturday is expected to officially confirm the stand that there is no possibility of surrender of claim on the 2.77-acre disputed land in Ayodhya.

“Mediation talks have failed to break the deadlock. We are confident about are arguments before the honourable Supreme Court and look forward to the much-awaited verdict from the court,” Jilani said.

For the AIMPLB, the stand that it will go for legal solution is not new. In its previous meetings, it had passed a resolution in this regard.

Highly-placed sources in AIMPLB claim that Saturday’s meeting will focus on briefing the executive about the legal proceedings so far and giving it a brief of legal deliberations in the court.

Meanwhile, former vice-chancellor of Aligarh Muslim University, Zamiruddin Shah, asked if the Muslim side won the case and the Sunni Waqf Board got the title of the land, would it be possible to build a mosque at the place where a makeshift temple was already in existence.

He further said: “Even if Hindu side wins the case, there are certain elements in Indian society who will use it to serve their political interests, thereby leading to escalation of communal tension.”